Over 100 bar associations and legal organizations called on the governor to fully invest in a public fund for civil legal services, and warned staff cuts would follow if funding wasn’t secured.
Read MoreA pair of lawmakers and a group of attorneys are calling on the legislature to pass into law a bill that they say would prevent the governor from stripping cash from a fund meant to support civil legal services work, just as she did in the state’s recently passed budget.
Read MoreNew York’s legal community has responded with outrage after the governor decided to move forward with a sweep of a pot of money meant to fund civil legal services for low-income New Yorkers.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul late last week reversed her plan to take money out of a fund meant to aid indigent defense services in New York and transfer it to the state’s general cash fund.
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